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  • Defying the Censors: Jackson, the surviving Beatles and the deceased Beatles' widows refused Disney's demands to tone down the language, making this series the first TV-MA equivalent program to stream on Disney+ in the United States.
  • The Red Stapler: Due to featuring prominently in the seriesnote , the Fender Bass VI ended up being Fender's best selling bass model in 2022.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • The series shows the group rehearsing several songs that they never recorded as a group. Some, like a composition John demos called "Madman", or Paul's instrumental "The Palace of the King of the Birds", or a half-finished song of Ringo's called "Going to Carolina", were simply abandoned. Others appeared on various Beatle solo albums after the breakup. John brings in "Gimme Some Truth" and "Jealous Guy" (the latter with completely different lyrics and called "On the Road to Marrakech"note ), which both eventually appeared on Imagine. Paul plays "Teddy Boy" which eventually appeared on his solo debut McCartney. Possibly most famously, George says "I've got some slow ones" and then demos one of his Signature Songs, "All Things Must Pass", which the band rehearses for a while.
    • The songs "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Oh, Darling!", "Octopus's Garden", "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window", "Polythene Pam", and others that would eventually appear on Abbey Road were first written and/or rehearsed during these sessions. Why these songs would eventually be put on Abbey Road is unclear, but it'd be interesting to wonder which of the songs would've been put on Let It Be if Abbey Road didn't exist.
    • While in the Apple Studio and waiting for Paul, George talks to John about an idea he had where, because of how much friction is caused by fighting over what songs are included on the album's, he proposes each member releasing solo albums in between proper Beatles releases to reduce the ego and fighting involved. John loves the ideanote  but when Paul gets back they don't get a chance to bring it up before he gets them playing again and John and George don't bring it up again while he's there. Almost everyone watching the film, including Paul, believe that if literally anyone remembered to tell Paul after he came back then the Beatles might not have broken up after recording Abbey Road.
    • It also turns out that John Lennon was being serious about suggesting that Billy Preston join the band but the rest of the band didn't take it that way.

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